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VANCOUVER, B.C. – In the late 1980s, I was asked to meet with a Gallup family heir who wished to explore a collaborative venture for a public opinion poll of "transformational" attitudes worldwide. Before our meeting, I half expected a dull, cautious businessman-bureaucrat. Instead, in sauntered in a brilliant imagination, a bright intellect, with the twinkle of cosmic change. This Gallup seemed more like a utopian resident of Sir Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis (some interpret Bacon’s unfinished work as an allegory about Earth’s coming integration with a larger Universe society), rather than the stereotypical captain of corporate America. That meeting was my first expansive Gallup encounter.

A decade or so later, I once again encountered an expansive Gallup. This time my encounter was not with a scion, but with a Gallup public opinion poll. The subject matter of the poll related to my research on Exopolitics, the study of politics, government, and law in the Universe. I found the Gallup organization had compiled a public opinion poll that illuminated key terrestrial dynamics of the study of governmental structures and political processes in the Universe.

Yes, you read that sentence correctly. It did say "key terrestrial dynamics of the study of governmental structures and political processes in the Universe." Our terrestrial law of Space now ends at the upper atmosphere, or at best at the Moon. Everything beyond those near-earth orbits is, legally speaking, the Void. No living entity or system of government or law is presumed to exist there. Human law assumes that no supra-human politics or regulation exists in outer or dimensional Space.

Enter Exopolitics
Exopolitics, as a discipline for understanding Universe society through
its politics and government, may turn our dominant view of the Universe
upside down and inside out. As exopolitics posits, the truest
conception of our human circumstance may be that we are on an isolated
planet in the midst of a populated, evolving, highly organized
inter-planetary, inter-galactic, multi-dimensional Universe society.
From an exopolitical perspective, Earth only appears to be isolated
because we are in intentional quarantine, imposed by the technology and
justice of structured, rational Universe society. We may be isolated
from the rest of Universe society as the result of a formal, Universe
governmental and political process.

Are we as a planet on the verge of being re-integrated into Universe
society? That’s very likely. The signs are all around us. In fact, as
the Gallup organization polls suggests, contemporary human attitudes
about our populated Universe may themselves constitute one of the main
signs of our pending reintegration into Universe society.

As with other historical transformations of human society, politics
may be a key mechanism for navigating Earth’s integration into Universe
society. Politics is a process by which the interests of individuals,
groups, and institutions will mediate, compromise, and create a
collective future. Politics, however, does not end at Earth’s edge.
Politics is a process that is universal. Earth’s integration into
Universe society is occurring as part of a definable political process
within Universe government. That process is part of the discipline we
can term exopolitics.

The Exopolitical Majority
Does the exopolitical version of our Universe reality sound vaguely
familiar to you? Does it raise a tingle along the back of your neck?
Does it have the ring of truth? Or do you react to it as flaky and
unscientific? Well, you can compare your own attitudes about
exopolitical reality in the results of a very significant public
opinion poll by, yes, the Gallup organization. This poll has profound
exopolitical implications. This Gallup poll is almost like a "tracking
poll" for extraterrestrial politics.

Each of our personal opinions about the reality of an
extraterrestrial presence on Earth now falls along a spectrum of public
opinion that has already been scientifically measured by the Gallup
organization. A 1996 Gallup poll showed that 72 percent of the U.S.
adult population believes there is some form of extraterrestrial life.
Fully 45 percent of the adult population believes the Earth is visited
by extraterrestrial life.

By extension, we may assume that public opinion about
extraterrestrial visitation may be roughly the same in the other
regions of the planet. The proportion of world youth that likewise
believe extraterrestrials have visited Earth may be even higher than
the adult population. These polls, I am sure, will be measured in the
not too distant future, if they have not been measured already.

The Gallup poll now shows that nearly 100 million adult humans in
the United States – 45 percent of its adult population – believe that
Extraterrestrial civilization has visited or visits Earth.

Let’s explore the political dimensions of this finding. One hundred
million adults is approximately the number of U.S. adults who vote in a
U.S. Presidential election! The U.S. Federal Election Commission
reports that 96,277,634 persons voted in the 1996 Presidential general
election.

We can assume that as a whole these 100 million adults aren’t
delusional, mind-controlled, or brainwashed. Our poll population can
intuitively filter out those extraterrestrial "visitations" which are
staged secret psychological warfare operations by human
military-intelligence agencies. A more recent poll shows that 70
percent of U.S. adults believe the U.S. government is covering up an
extraterrestrial presence.

By the very premises of public opinion polls, these 100 million
extraterrestrial-sensitive humans are responding to something they
believe is true. Down deep in their intuition they hold that
extraterrestrials have visited Earth. Philosopher Immanuel Kant would
call this perfectly valid intuitive knowledge. In short, human
intuition is reality-oriented enough to filter out false propaganda
from Universe reality.

What are the implications of the finding that more adult U.S.
citizens believe extraterrestrials visit Earth than vote in a U.S.
Presidential election? Public opinion polls are prime tools in
terrestrial politics. Suppose a public opinion poll were to show that
100 million U.S. adults were favor of a particular type of health care
or social security plan. You can safely bet that governments and
politicians (especially at election time!) would be jumping to meet
these poll-driven political demands.

By contrast, a valid public opinion poll showing that 100 million
U.S. adults believe there is an extraterrestrial presence is not
driving any political outcomes. No mainstream politicians have defined
extraterrestrial presence as a live political or public policy issue.
No sizable number of citizens of any terrestrial nation are moved to
call upon their local politicians or the political process to connect
with the extraterrestrial presence, or study it, or even acknowledge it
officially. Why is this anomaly occurring in politics and government?

You could say that a major reason for the disconnection between
terrestrial politics and the extraterrestrial issue is cultural and
contextual. Our modern human culture has not yet placed these issues –
the extraterrestrial presence, terrestrial politics, and Universe
society – in the same context. Our "mainstream" collective human mind
literally cannot now see how governments and politics might be
connected to an extraterrestrial initiative.

But cultural context is not the whole cause. Public interest
research shows that a determined covert terrestrial network may be
attempting to "engineer" human attitudes toward the extraterrestrial
initiative, and in turn, toward Universe society. Two principal tools
of this attitude engineering are official secrecy about actual
extraterrestrial contact, and a raging information war against the
extraterrestrial presence.
These quasi-official, secret "black operations" networks appear to be
hosted largely in the anglophile countries of United States, United
Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Coincidentally, these
anti-extraterrestrial networks are in the countries that manage "Echelon," a secret Internet surveillance operation.

The recent unofficial three-year COMETA study
formally suggested the hypothesis of an extraterrestrial presence as
viable based on the evidence. The senior French scientists, along with
former space and Air Force officials, who completed the COMETA study
may be taking sides in the information war. Whether consciously or not,
functionally they act as informal diplomatic allies of Universe
society. The French government itself has sued the Echelon countries
for industrial espionage in violation of the European Union. Thus there
may be the makings of a diplomatic divide in the global
anti-Extraterrestrial information war!

The anti-Extraterrestrial information war has been in place since
the early 1950s. This war has no terrestrial political sanction, has
not been approved by any constitutional body, and violates the norms of
international law. The illegal information war is, on analysis, a
principal exopolitical block to Earth’s fuller integration with
Universe society.

The Disclosure Movement
Not surprisingly, a public disclosure movement is emerging in North
America and worldwide. Its focus is to force credible disclosure of
official contact, and to stop the information war against the
extraterrestrial presence. Disclosure movements have longstanding
political and constitutional roots in the U.S. and elsewhere. Public
interest groups have often used the political and constitutional
process to make public and stop secret unconstitutional wars and
programs. Such was the case in the Watergate cover-up, the Iran-Contra
drug-weapons scheme, and the war in Central America (which killed more
than a million persons, with questionable constitutional
authorization).

Public disclosure of extraterrestrial contact and of the information
war is a nexus point where terrestrial politics and exopolitics meet.
To mix many metaphors, disclosure is "where the rubber meets the road."
Public disclosure is how exopolitics acquires "traction" in human
awareness and terrestrial politics. Disclosure is the procedural
antecedent to full, sustained, institutional contact with an
extraterrestrial (and multidimensional) Universe society.

Televised public legislative hearings on extraterrestrial scientific
and public policy issues are a key strategic option for triggering
official disclosure. The political and mass-educational impacts of an
open, uncensored legislative hearing before a bipartisan,
gender-balanced panel of U.S. Congresspersons could be profound.

Televised legislative and educational panels in different regions of
the Earth could follow. France, Brazil and Japan are fruitful of venues
for public disclosure hearings that readily come to mind. Hearings in
these countries may be even more open than hearings in the U.S., the
prime venue of the information war. The U.S., with only five percent of
the world’s population, may be serving as unwitting host for the brunt
of the anti-extraterrestrial information war.

Official legislative hearings can create a credible forum for
high-impact disclosure testimony and evidence. The prime function of
televised public disclosure is global public education about an
extraterrestrial presence. There are many concurrent disclosure
activities that could provide valuable testimony and evidence for
official hearings. These include high-level French participants in the
three-year COMETA study, as well as witnesses in Washington, D.C.-based
CSETI’s disclosure project (where I recently submitted testimony on a
1977 Carter White House extraterrestrial communication study).

Exopolitics: The "Alien" vs. Extraterrestrial Distinction
The information war is designed to sow confused, negative human
attitudes about extraterrestrial reality. Many "alien abductions" may
in reality be classic psychological warfare operations, and a
phenomenon of the information war. Abduction experiences may be a
mixture of: 1) growth-oriented dimensional experiences of an archetypal
nature, as described by Harvard Professor John Mack; 2) psychological
operations by various sides in the information war; 3) MILAB or
terrestrial military-intelligence operations, mimicking "alien
abductions" as part of the information war (thus, many abductions may
be "psy-war" phenomena of the anti-extraterrestrial information war).

From an exopolitical perspective, I use the term "extraterrestrial"
to refer to organized Universe society as it exists in interstellar and
multidimensional space. Extraterrestrial societies are the participants
in the exopolitical process. Exopolitics is a fundamental organizing,
mediating, social, and governmental process in our interplanetary and
interdimensional space. Exopolitics is how a highly populated and
regulated Universe governs itself.

Exopolitics is designed to elicit and illustrate basic principles
and dynamics of politics, government, and law in the Universe.

Towards a Decade of Contact: A Vision
How can the human population get beyond the anti-extraterrestrial
conceptual traps our institutions and terrestrial leaders keep
constructing for us? One way is to build a new, participatory
exopolitical process whose purpose is to foment and structure
humankind’s preparedness to enter interplanetary society.
This participatory process is the Decade of Contact. As a society, we
can dedicate a ten-year period of human education and community action
around integrating Earth into Universe society. The Decade of Contact
is both a process and a public attitude. Extraterrestrial contact is
our doorway into re-integration with Universe society. Extraterrestrial
contact is an interactive process, both with our fellow humans and with
Universe society itself. Just how many decades it will take to
re-establish working contact with the organized Universe seems to be
partially in our own hands.

The Decade of Contact is simple and straightforward. Any individual,
group, age group, institution, nation, or government can participate.
Participants in the Decade of Contact commit to transform their lives,
their institutional focus, and resources to re-establishing integration
with organized interplanetary society. Rejoining Universe society is an
exopolitical process, and will happen only as political momentum
gathers at the personal, local, regional, and global levels. The
process of Universe integration may take time in lift-off, like a space
vehicle starting its long journey with slow lift-off from Earth.

Mobilizing the human species to integrate with Universe society will
take place in many concurrent ways. A key task is the gathering of
information, research, and scientific and educational resources about
Universe society. Our dominant terrestrial model of reality is
functionally a legacy from the Middle Ages. Our collective new
knowledge base must be assembled from an exopolitical context.

There are also important cultural components to the Decade of
Contact, as human awareness builds to a critical mass. These include
political movements, public events, concerts, music, art, and media to
celebrate Universe society. Our reunion with Universe society is a
ground of our basic human rights. The contact process transforms our
civilization from within, from a terrestrial culture to a Universal
one.
Transformation of human society will occur when we reach a
Universe-sensitive critical mass. With approximately 45 percent of
Earth’s population now extraterrestrial-conscious, can critical mass be
far behind?